by Susie Hairston As we all know, this has been a rough year for the environment and for those who work/volunteer to help conserve and protect it: rollbacks on environmental protections resulting in dirtier air and water and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the hollowing out of the EPA and the abandonment of its mission, the withholding of federal funding,…
by Samantha Page As the pace of the holiday season slows and Houston’s winter air settles in, aside from a Christmas week expected to feel more like late summer with temperatures near 81 degrees, nature offers a quieter kind of gift, one that doesn’t come wrapped, but is all around us. Winter in Southeast Texas is a special time for wildlife….
by Susie Hairston I remember learning about glaciers in middle school in some physical science class; at the time, I did not find them to be particularly compelling or relevant. Perhaps that is because of the dry manner in which they were described that in no way captured their dynamic nature, their power, and their importance to all of us…